Before Yao Shen can say anything, he feels Xin Hulei's hand close over his shoulder. "What exactly did you see?" Xin Hulei asks Gao Wu, his attention solely focused on him.
Gao Wu shrinks a little under the intensity of Xin Hulei's gaze, probably recalling the circumstances in which they last met.
"The nightmares were usually disconcerting, like anxiety fuelled illusions," he shakes his head and frowns, as if just recalling them is enough to upset him. "To start off it was just random scenes, like being suffocated under a pile of my own talismans, or constantly falling down the window of the hotel, but never reaching the ground, being chased by cameras..."
He circles his hand in the air, indicating that the pattern went on in that vein.
All those descriptions are similar to Yao Shen's own experiences, from the cicadas to the eyes crushing him under their gaze -- except his nightmares never progress past that.
Likely due to Xin Hulei's intervention.
